Hi svkndv, Your concept is very good. The following is my feedback: - Get a good logo and banner - Bring the retail search google custom box to the banner and right above the User name box, and below contact us. - Reduce the number of adbrite content links, there are way too many in the second para - Somehow there's too much of spread out text that the titles are not read well, increase the font size there in or the font face to make it a bit thicker. Reduce the excerpt length to something like 250 characters and add 'Read more' tags - If your main target is forums, then you should have at least main forum threads in the main page itself, right now noone will easily spot your forums link and actually go there Good luck!
Add a real logo, put your search box elsewhere and put a slogan instead, then it would be ok. There is nothing special to add since you use a free template along with scrapped content.